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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Fáilte romhat, a Aire. I would like to discuss academic freedom and the Athena Swan charter with the Minister but first I want to ask about the core funding commitment. The Minister's predecessor said after the Cassells report and the Funding the Future document that the issue of higher education funding in the future was settled. He was referring to the set figure of €307...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I know the Government is doing lots of good things and I do not want to be rude-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: -----but the Government is failing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: -----in that it was to be €307 million from the start. Does the Minister accept that there will be over €1 billion-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: -----of a shortfall when you add up all the fallback of the successive years? Does the Minister agree that the supplementary budget needs to have a €90 million allocation in order to cover existing pay increase obligations for the years up to now, if that shortfall is not to eat into the benefits of what is being given this time around?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Is it maybe a case of a lot done, more to do? Would the Minister settle for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: The universities thought they were going to get across the river at the start, when the Minister's predecessor said it was settled. The Minister can only do what he can do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I know that one as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I think they would have thought they would have had it by now, though. What about the recurrent grant allocation model, RGAM? There is concern - and I know there are two sides to this issue - about how future funding increases will be divvied out between the universities and technological universities. Is it going to be on a 50:50 basis or will it be on the basis of student numbers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: The Minister is a bright man. What has that got to do with the question I just asked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I am only asking the Minister how future funding increases are going to be divvied out. Is it to be 50:50 between the universities and the TUs or is it going to be based on student numbers? Is ceist shimplí í.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: I am going to hold off on my Athena SWAN question until the second round of questions, if I may, because I want to ask the Minister one other question. I will go back to the core funding. In what year, in the Minister's estimation, will we arrive at the point where university core funding will be €307 million or more above that 2022 figure? Does the Minister acknowledge that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: Would the Minister put a figure on the shortfall to date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: There is all that missed opportunity because bills had to be paid in the meantime.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)
Rónán Mullen: It is supposed to be €307 million more by now.